Austin Ranks is the 16th Largest American Tech Hub with Nearly 85,000 Workers
The SF Bay Area is America's top tech hub with 378,870 workers followed by NY Metro (344,520), Washington DC (259,310), LA (235,800),...
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- Jul 25
- 1 min
Austin-Round Rock & Other Labor Force Data for June 2022-From Texas Workforce Commission
Around Austin-Business. Data from twc.texas.gov shows that that Austin-Round Rock (ARR) umemployment rate was 3.1% in June 2022 down...
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- Jul 22
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EANES STEM-LEGO Summer Robotics
High School STEM at EANES-ISD-Westlake High School-First Ever Lego League Summer robotics camp. Source Jeff Arnett
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- Jul 1
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Despite an Economic Downturn, Tech is only at "...the end of the beginning"
Austin is first in CompTIA's Tech Town USA but with an economic downturn getting startup money is harder yet an expert sees a bright future.
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- Jun 2
- 4 min
Good At Games, Need a Buck, Join The Gig Economy-Uber, Lyft, Handy, Rover, Grubhub, DoorDash Et al.
Cheap subsidized ride shares are gone. With tricked-out low pay, the AI fueled APPs are struggling to get drivers to replenish more supply!
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- May 16
- 2 min
Big Brother More Pervasive Than Ever, Laws Slow to Adopt Worker's Digital Rights
Ways to monitor employees are now more advanced than ever. Worker protections are slowly beginning to emerge.
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- May 7
- 3 min
Looking Under the Hood of Big Tech Reveals Where Profits Are Huge & Possibly Unfair
Big tech Amazon, Alphabet, Apple, Microsoft & Meta have concentrated profits, some loss of loyalty & regulatory hits that could total $330bn
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- Mar 30
- 2 min
Retail Pricing-Large Transaction Datasets & AI Make Pricing Decisions More Reliable
Retail pricing once an art is now more of science due to massive transactional databases and AI computing.
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- Mar 25
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Austin Rising-VC Funding, SBA Loans & NIH Grants
Austin continues to accrue above "it's weight" in VC Funding and SBA Loans and is on a path to see growth in Medical Research NIH grants.
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- Mar 22
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Early Detection of Parkinson's In Development-A Link to Organic Acids from Skin in Patients
Early detection of disease is often a key to slowing or eliminating disease. A test being developed for Parkinson's Disease catch it early.
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- Mar 16
- 2 min
Dell At SXSW-Austin's Tech No Reason to Think it will Stop
Michael Dell and VC Jim Breyer at SXSW comment that the Austin area will continue to build a tech and medical innovation hub.
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- Mar 8
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High-Paying Jobs Being Added in Round Rock
Round Rock Texas doles out incentives that will add high-paying jobs at Emerson and SDC. Incentives added nearly $500M in taxes in 15 years!
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- Mar 1
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New Spyware Hacks-The "No-Click" Hitch
A smartphone security concern, hackers are moving from one-click to zero-click. No need to click and you won't easily know you've been hit!
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- Feb 17
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Rivian Launches EV Pickup the Rivian RIT
Ready or not enter the American market the first EV Pickup the Rivian RIT. Many accolades for the powerful mid-size pickup & a few glitches
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- Feb 16
- 2 min
One-A-Day Unicorns
Private equity preferred by entrepreneurs has been hot for a while and doubled the number of unicorns last year as investors poured in $681B
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- Feb 4
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The Dream of Automatic Software Coding Becoming A Reality for Some Business Needs
Developing software without having coding credentials is increasingly possible using tools from Salesforce, Microsoft, Amazon and others
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- Jan 26
- 2 min
Drone Insecurity-Countermeasures Currently Underwhelming
Consumer grade drones have been in use for a while yet countermeasures to stop nefarious use are lagging. What's being considered?
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- Jan 24
- 3 min
Austin-Boom Town To Elect A New Mayor, A New Direction?
Austin has been a boom town for the last decade. Pundits wonder if ATX can avoid the pitfalls of Silcon Valley and San Francisco.
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- Jan 21
- 2 min
Digital Twins
Digital twins are being created to help manage and plan in all fields including medicine-diagnosing and treating congenital heart defects.
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- Jan 12
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Software Driving Medical Decision-Making Are Largely Unregulated by the FDA "First Do No Harm!"
Decision-making software are now widely used today in American medical practices. Due to shortcomings better FDA oversight is requested.